Book cover of Kimberly J. Lau, Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2024), courtesy Wayne State University Press Racial beliefs, the book suggests ...

“But there was nothing I wanted to read. I could not read.” The book’s alternate world combines Grimmian fairy-tale elements with Lovecraftian cosmic horror, but it takes a while to get ther ...

And because I’m just as obsessed with fairy tales today as when I was a young mermaid-hopeful, here are five books offering fresh takes on the stories we think we know. The Last Tale of the ...